In honor of my approaching (50th) birthday, my sister invited me to visit her and attend this Friday’s Portland Fashion Week Ready-to-Wear Show.
What to wear? Above all, nothing boring! Also, nothing that feels labored. Or matronly. Or too hot. Or too cold. You may call me Silverilocks 
Currently atop my list of possibilities is the simple white cotton dress I posted about wearing a couple of months ago. The LAST thing I want to do is to spread the “always a new outfit” virus; repeating this dress, but with different accessories, is perfect.
How I am taking a white cotton dress into fall:
- With boots. Vintage brown suede is what I am thinking.
- And a scarf. Because my sister gave me this really cool, made in Portland, multi-color, flocked texture, brown scarf. If I can’t stand to wear it in my hair, it will be a bracelet.
- And a DIY jeweled collar, made of Premier Designs Jewelry pins. My daughter, the jeweler, is also going.
I also think three considerations suggest the white:
- White is a color that I feel is personal for me, like many women like black. I also LOVE brown and white together.
- White is now, in terms of fashion rather than season.
- Nobody likes to be restricted by fashion legalism anyway.
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I am curious, though, since the magazines have recently declared the little white dress a staple, who’s been wearing one besides me? How about the little red dress for fall?